Arrest made in Greensboro hit-and-run that killed off-duty lineman Chas Sellers

More than 100 days after Chas Sellers was killed in a Greensboro hit-and-run, police made an arrest, but the case offered his loved ones only a narrow measure of relief. Sellers’ girlfriend said the news brought answers, not closure, a reaction that reflects the gap families often feel when a suspect is finally named long after a fatal crash.

Greensboro police identified the arrested man as Javier Fransisco Solis, 24, of High Point. He was charged in late April with felony hit and run resulting in serious injury or death, and records show he posted a $35,000 bond. Sellers was 29 and from Bremen, Georgia, when he was struck along N.C. 68 near Gallimore Dairy Road, a corridor that carries steady traffic near Interstate 40 and through western Greensboro.

Investigators said the crash happened around 8:35 p.m. on Friday, January 16, 2026. Sellers’ body was found at 7:33 a.m. the next morning, and police believed he had been hit roughly 11 hours before he was discovered in the roadway. Greensboro police, Greensboro Fire Department and Guilford County EMS responded after reports of a person lying near the road. The Greensboro Police Department’s Crash Reconstruction Unit handled the investigation.

Police initially said the suspect vehicle may have been a white Infiniti Q50, and they routed tips through Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers, the P3 Tips app and P3Tips.com. That public plea underscores how long officers had to search before an arrest was made, and how a fatal traffic case can remain open for months while one family waits for answers.

North Carolina law requires a driver involved in a crash to stop. Under G.S. 20-166, a willful violation in a crash resulting in death is punished as a Class F felony. The charge against Solis shows that state law treats these cases as serious crimes, yet the Sellers family’s experience also shows the limits of a late arrest. An arrest can begin accountability, but it cannot restore the life that was lost on a Greensboro roadway while Sellers was simply doing his job.